CRADOCK, will be found at length in
Lewys Dwnn's _Visitation of Wales_ (vol. i. p. 145.), published by the late
Sir Samuel Meyrick, under the auspices of the Welsh MSS. Society. It places
Newton in Pembrokeshire, and differs in some other respects from MR.
ELLACOMBE'S account. The entry was made in 39 Eliz., 1597, and the close of
the pedigree, translated into English, is as follows:

Sir John Newton, Kt.==
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Henry Newton of 2 John Newton Frances, wife
Hanham, Somersetshire. of Frusto. of William
Lord Cobham.
LANCASTRIENSIS.

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ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING.

In Vol. ii., p. 286., an allusion is made by a correspondent to the
following verses of the comic poet Crobylus, in reference to the antiquity
of smoking:

[Greek: A. "Ego de pros ta therma tauth' huperbolei]
[Greek: Tous daktulous depouthen idaious echo,]
[Greek: Kai ton larung' hedista purio temachiois.]

[Greek: B. "Kaminos, ouk anthropos."]
Athen I. p. 5. F.

The two last verses are thus rendered in the passage referred to:

"And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings;
A chimney, not a man."

Athenaeus is describing the fondness of the ancient gourmands for eating
their food extremely hot. As they had no forks, but, like the modern
Orientals, carried their food to their mouth with their fingers, one
Pithyllus used gloves in order to avoid burning his fingers. (_Ib._ I. p.
6. D.)

In the second line there is a pun upon the word [Greek: idaios] which is
explained to mean "cold"--the allusion being to the Idaean Dactyli. (See
Meineke, _Fragm. Com. Gr._, vol. iv. p. 568. Lobeck, _Aglaoph_. p. 1181.)
The passage is to be translated thus:

A. My fingers are fire-proof against these exceedingly hot morsels, and I
delight in burning my throat with slices of fish.

B. "A furnace, not a man."

In v. 3. [Greek: purio] is the word properly applied to steaming in a
vapour-bath; and [Greek: temachos] or [Greek: temachon] is a slice or
cutlet of fish. (See Aristoph. _Nub._ 339.) In v. 4. [Greek: kaminos] must
not be rendered "chimney". It is a furnace or oven, and not even a stove or
hearth, as Scott and Liddell remark in v. The ancient Greeks, and pro